There’s absolutely nothing wrong with visiting your local home furnishing store, purchasing a few items from the shelf that appeal to you, and using those to decorate your home. The only downside here is that other homes along your street may have had the exact same idea before you.
This means that every possible home you visit, every time your friend introduces you to their newly redecorated bedroom, or whenever you want to sustain a new space, everything looks a little samey. We can’t imagine just how many “live, laugh, love” signs are currently hosted in households across the US. Again, there’s nothing wrong with this particular sign, only in some respects, it’s become comical to point that out given how popular they are and how many households have it.
This isn’t to say you have to opt for something you dislike just because you think it will differentiate you. If you want your home to look like the spitting image of an IKEA showroom, that’s absolutely your choice and it would probably look rather wonderful and homely.
However, if you want to decorate more in line with the suitability of your household and not another, you may find use in the following tips:
Texturing & Staining
You can help sustain the condition and renew the aesthetic of common household implements with texturing efforts. That might involve using fence staining services to help add deeper, richer colors while also protecting your privacy fence around your back or front garden. This can help you alternate the stock aesthetic that home installations might apply, defining how your space looks without you having a say in it.
Handmade & Reclaimed Fixtures
While handmade weaved baskets and self-made garden arches can be fantastic, you don’t need to do everything yourself just to enjoy a decoration. That said, you might make slight alterations like reupholstering furniture, sanding and painting your coffee table to look renewed and fresh, or even painting trimmings like your windowsill flower baskets or even using reclaimed wood to construct a unique door with the help from a local carpenter. These small decorative efforts and sourcing unique decorations can help your home feel truly unique, and also cohesive within the parameters of your own taste.
Unique Trimmings
You may be surprised just how wonderful a set of unique trimmings can be in the home, especially if they’re sourced slowly from different periods of your life. You might have a stool that you fashioned from a cut-down tree in your back garden, or stencils that your child helps you draw alongside the skirting board in your kitchen, adding a beautiful floral motif. Don’t feel that your home has to be a perfect rendition of what a real estate agent may want to present to their prospective clients – small but deliberate changes that showcase you lived in this house can be wonderful, and are worth celebrating.
With this advice, you’re sure to make the appropriate investments that help any home remain unique.
Kate says
I love that you have included examples that have a low carbon footprint such as upcycling. Well done.